All Justice Info articles since 2015
All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.
The disappeared in The Gambia, a missing investigation
3 July 2023
by Mariam Sankanu
In its recently disclosed implementation plan, the Gambian government says it will set up a task force to complete and expand the work accomplished by the Truth commission on enforced disappearances. Four cases involving five indi [...]
30 June 2023
by Olena Zhyla
Ukrainian courts are moving to try higher-level authorities for alleged collaboration with Russia, or treason. In Sumy, a region bordering Russia in the North-East of Ukraine that was partly occupied by Russian troops between late [...]
29 June 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Southern Ukraine early June has been described as ecocide by Ukrainian authorities who accused Russia of being responsible for an action that caused massive environmental damage. Ukraine [...]
29 June 2023
by Lena Bjurström
A French court on June 28 sentenced former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana to life in jail for genocide and crimes against humanity. In the final days of this trial, where testimony was central, the prosecution and defence [...]
27 June 2023
by Maria Koroleva
Rostov-on-Don, the city where Russia tries Ukrainian fighters – and foreigners
Rostov-on-Don has just been in the news for the Wagner armed militia’s brief uprising. But it is also in this large town in western Russia that the first Russian trials of captured Ukrainian fighters are being held. One of them, a [...]
26 June 2023
by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Rwanda: Venant Rutunga, a genocide suspect who can defend himself
Many trials of genocide suspects sent back to Rwanda have been concluded without defence witnesses. But at the trial of Venant Rutunga, extradited from the Netherlands, several witnesses came to his defence. One of them publicly e [...]
23 June 2023
by Lena Bjurström
Philippe Hategekimana makes final statement, then goes silent
Former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana, on trial in Paris for genocide and crimes against humanity, briefly restated his position before his final questioning. Yes, he said, the Tutsi genocide took place in Rwanda in 1994. [...]
22 June 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Has trying Kabuga become absurd?
There were many objections after the decision by the UN Mechanism in charge of trying Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga to continue the trial through an undefined and unprecedented “alternative procedure” although he has be [...]
22 June 2023
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: Special tribunal indicts first prominent politician
The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) presented a new indictment on 29 May. It is the first against a civilian politician, the first for persecution as a crime against humanity, and the first from the troubled prosecution secti [...]
20 June 2023
by Lena Bjurström
I was 10 years old in Rwanda in 1994 and now a prosecution witness
A dozen people who were under 15 in 1994 have testified at the genocide trial of former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana before a Paris court. With frozen scenes, lost details and distorted time, they recount the chaos and m [...]
19 June 2023
by Franck Petit and Jean-Fernand Koena
Central African Republic: Special Court hands down first reparations decision
After several months of hesitation, the Special Criminal Court on June 16 handed down in Bangui a first reparations decision in its first and only trial. This decision does not fully meet the expectations of the victims, who were [...]
16 June 2023
by Géraldine Giraudeau
Why those experiencing "climate hell" are taking their case to the UN Court
Those whose feet are already in the water, in the Pacific, have opened a front in the battle for climate justice before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Netherlands. Solicited by a resolution of the United Nations G [...]
15 June 2023
by Anastasia Zubova
GPS and pepper: rare trial of a Ukrainian “strike corrector”
"Strike correctors", who help Russian forces direct their missiles, are among the most feared and tracked traitors in Ukraine. But trials are rare. On May 29, a District Court of Kropyvnytskyi found Mykola Fomenko, a 41-year-old r [...]
13 June 2023
by Margherita Capacci
ICC: the never-ending nightmare of Darfur's victims
This is the first trial for serious crimes committed in Darfur. On June 5 in The Hague, the victims’ representatives took the floor in the Ali-Kushayb case at the International Criminal Court (ICC), amidst ongoing violence in Suda [...]
12 June 2023
by Simon Foreman
Universal Jurisdiction: movement to end the French exception?
In France, the Court of Cassation lifted two major constraints on universal jurisdiction on May 12. At the end of May, however, during negotiations on an international cooperation treaty in Ljubjana, Paris showed its concern to pr [...]
9 June 2023
by Maxim Shanahan
A first (civil) ruling confirms Australia's war crimes in Afghanistan
It's 'just' a civil defamation case, but it has caused thunder in Australia. Soldier Ben Roberts-Smith lost the case against the media accusing him of war crimes in Afghanistan, and to establish this the media had to present evide [...]
8 June 2023
by Thierry Cruvellier
Kabuga: heading for a palliative trial?
According to his judges, Félicien Kabuga can be tried but not convicted. On June 6, a UN tribunal ruled that the Rwandan, aged 88 (or 90, according to him), is no longer fit to stand trial. But instead of suspending the case, the [...]
6 June 2023
by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Rwanda: slowly, the justice net is closing on the last genocide fugitives
Fulgence Kayishema’s arrest on May 24 in South Africa comes 29 years after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It’s expected he will be the fourth fugitive from the former UN tribunal for Rwanda to be sent back to his country for trial. [...]
5 June 2023
by Antoine Harari in Bellinzona (Switzerland)
Appeals court convicts Liberian Alieu Kosiah of crimes against humanity
A Swiss appeals court on June 1 confirmed a 20-year prison sentence for Alieu Kosiah, former commander of an armed group in Liberia in the 1990s. Kosiah was already the first person convicted of war crimes by a Swiss civil court. [...]